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You demand that your precepts
be carefully kept.[a]
If only I were predisposed[b]
to keep your statutes.
Then I would not be ashamed,
if[c] I were focused on[d] all your commands.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 119:4 tn Heb “you, you commanded your precepts, to keep, very much.”
  2. Psalm 119:5 tn Heb “if only my ways were established.”
  3. Psalm 119:6 tn Or “when.”
  4. Psalm 119:6 tn Heb “I gaze at.”

You have laid down precepts(A)
    that are to be fully obeyed.(B)
Oh, that my ways were steadfast
    in obeying your decrees!(C)
Then I would not be put to shame(D)
    when I consider all your commands.(E)

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